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Telemann

Company dancers perform.

Company dancers in performance.

Premiere

  • Date

    4 November 1983

  • Company

    Twyla Tharp Dance

  • Location

    Jacksonville, FL

Production

  • Choreographer

    Twyla Tharp

  • Composer

    Georg Philipp Telemann (Concerto in E Major for Flute, Oboe d’amore and Violin)

  • Lighting Designer

    Jennifer Tipton

  • Costume Designer

    Santo Loquasto

Dancers

Shelley Freydont, Mary Ann Kellogg, Shelley Washington

John Carrafa, Richard Colton, William Whitener

  • Number of Dancers

    6

  • Runtime

    00:16:28

Description

Telemann is an abstract ballet blanc. This highly musical pure-dance work follows Third Suite (1980) in the list of classical works premiering not on a ballet company but on Tharp’s own modern dance group.

Past Performances

Twyla Tharp Dance

Telemann (premiere) | Twyla Tharp Dance

The Florida Theatre

Jacksonville, FL

November 4 1983 Dance

Twyla Tharp Dance

Eight Jelly Rolls – Telemann – Golden Section | Twyla Tharp Dance

Auditorium Theater

Chicago, IL

February 25 1984 TTD Performance

  • 1983
  • 1984